Fellowships
Fellowship Programs Shared Curriculum
The Fellowship Shared Curriculum provides a collaborative peer learning environment for fellows to gain Professional, Organizational, Instructional and Scholarly Skills. Learning sessions are taught and facilitated by experienced senior faculty and outside speakers. A longitudinal project management series assists the fellows in all aspects of a curriculum, quality improvement, or scholarly project in their chosen area of study.
Competencies
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Self Management
- Identify the strengths and weaknesses of your personal style.
- Establish and effectively communicate your career plan.
- Identify personal and professional priorities and discuss strategies for balancing these priorities.
- Use effective time management strategies to accomplish professional responsibilities without neglecting personal priorities.
- Identify mentoring needs and build an executive coaching team to fulfill those needs.
- Evaluate strengths and weaknesses of future job opportunities.
- Negotiate for necessary resources to achieve personal and professional goals.
Leadership
- Demonstrate effective use of situational leadership styles.
- Identify and nurture characteristics of an effective team.
- Identify personal leadership characteristics that impact on one’s effectiveness as a leader or manager.
ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS
Administration
- Identify personal style preferences and how to interact with others.
- Conduct effective meetings with a clear agenda & action plan and clear written documentation (e.g. memos summarizing discussion, meeting minutes).
- Display appropriate delegating and supervising behaviors to include: use of timelines and prioritization, clear directions and expectations, and appropriate delegation of tasks
- Analyze the culture of an organization to determine effective strategies to integrate oneself into it.
- Analyze financial statements to assess the financial performance of a clinical or educational program.
Project Design & Management
- Conduct a needs assessment that guides project development.
- Construct specific goals and outcomes for the project.
- Develop feasible methods to accomplish goals.
- Develop varied evaluation methods to measure desired outcomes.
- Identify key stakeholders that are essential to the successful implementation of a proposal.
- Collaborate with and involve the appropriate people in planning and implementation steps of a proposed change.
- Identify potential funding sources to provide sustaining support for the project.
- Construct a business plan for the project.
INSTRUCTIONAL SKILLS
- Organize and convey major teaching points at a level appropriate to audience in both inpatient and outpatient settings
- Manage teaching and learning in clinical settings to ensure patient needs are primary.
- Provide clear, concise, balanced feedback to learners on their performance.
- Manage specialized clinical teaching/learning situations such as hospital rounds, labor & delivery management, home visits, morning report or verbal chart reviews.
- Demonstrate effective leadership of small group discussion to ensure that learning goals are accomplished and effective group process is maintained.
- Present a lecture on a clinical or educational topic.
- Enhance presentations with effective audiovisual aids & handouts.
- Develop specific strategies for assessing, diagnosing and responding to difficult problems that arise when working with students/residents.
SCHOLARSHIP SKILLS
- Discuss the role of writing in one’s professional life and career advancement.
- Discuss basic principles and issues in writing for publication.
- Describe methods to turn educational and administrative efforts into scholarly efforts.
